The Truth Behind the Legend of Pocahontas

I just gotta say that Pocahontas came out when i was like 13 or 14 and it made my ass twitch…. I was like… This is super sus. I'd read about Sitting Bull and Chief Joseph and i was like…. um…. sure. Yes this is exactly what happened. 😢😢😢

Thanks for these facts, but another untold fact is England wasn't the only country that spoke to the tribe related to Pocahontas. I recognize her tribe's title when looking at the Algonquin history with the Basque……. Nahuatl, arawak, Taino, Algonquin, Uto Azteca and several neighbors throughout the Americas, that's how far I've gotten with cautiously studying our hidden connections. I'm a Metizo in the Southwest landscapes of the USA.

Might at least known information. Pocahontas was not a cartoon . She was a subject in high-school. I see that you invented a lot of your story

I have never liked her ., I find her fake… I have never watched her stupid tv series .. I hate the fact when I am out people compare me to her … I say to them I look nothing like her and the difference is I’m real she’s fake …

Pocahontas is my 10th great grandma. ❤

Forgive me, not even "Similar" to you or such high number….

But similar and fortunately, we rare Muslim women in the UK face the same by theses "whites" breeding with approved Dajjalic Satan "Muslim" Race and select tribes of other races…. 😭

The "love story" was literally written by John Smith as part of his "look at me getting hot babes all over the world" memoirs. It's as "historical" (and about as "accurate") as a porno magazine. Also, the only reason Smith ended up in North America is because England exiled him for the crimes he committed there–they tossed their trash on someone else's land.

My European ancestors arrived either in Roanoke or (documented) Jamestowne no later than 1608 on my Dad's side (thank you, Quaker Meeting Rolls). There are TWO women from that time frame of VERY Early Jamestowne who have the pretty generic name of Mary but last names like "Fern" and "Leaf" (literally) so I'm probably Powhatan Confederacy … just can't pin down which branch. My MOTHER'S ancestors came to Plymouth on the second Mayflower (similar female ancestor issues of Mary/Catherine with vaguely plant last names) AND went to MN when it was a territory and men came back from the Dakota territory with wives and children. My late hubby's family has a STRONG verified link to the Cherokee from the Carolinan and VA mountain areas after the Highland clearances in 1745.

So to the best of my knowledge and the limits of Euro-centric denial of native women marrying into the family …. I might be related to chief Powhatan. I also might be part Croatoan since they traded up the Chesapeake Bay and adopted the Roanoke settlers (Eastern Chesapeake Bay native American-descended people have historically had lighter, wavy/curly lighter hair and grey/blue/green eyes).

A murdered person is a murdered person it should not matter who they are! wtf

"People outside (of the Indian community) just don't know."
And that is what makes me, as an Indian-sympathetic white person, so angry! In my generation we non-Indians were falsely taught
1) that all the attrocities, injustices and abuse was inflicted on Indians were in the past and that now they're doing just fine on their reservations, financed by their gambling casinos and supported generously by US government funding.

2) The injustices that Indians suffered that we WERE taught about in schools was so extremely downplayed and watered down to hardly a tickle.

About 15 years ago I happened to catch talks by John Trudell and Russell Means, as well as viewing several documentaries about Wounded Knee (both the one in the 1890 and the one in 1973) and other conflicts past and ongoing, and I was shocked! I was angry that they are brushing this malignant history under the carpet and keeping us non-natives in the dark!

I have continued to dig up whatever information I can about what the Native people have been suffering. The problem is that it takes diligence to find it. I even had a psychology professor in college who was a full-blood native, but even he gave us only limited information.

Like Ms. Azocar said, sadly those of us on the "outside" are kept in the dark and left to believe that all of the injustices were mild, seldom and in the past.

That is how the system works: it keeps the general public from being aware of what is being perpetrated on certain ethnicities or nembers of society. This only keeps Americans more divided.

I greatly appreciate that PBS is airing this very valuable series. Thank you Tai! 🙏

I think the real Pocahontas was a very sensible woman and verbally gifted and started to make her voice heard and could have risen very high but someone saw her as a threat and she had to be silenced and it came entirely from the white side.What if she had been allowed to live and make her voice heard ,,,,how the American indians would live now??much better in my opinion 😉

There are a lot of things that going on the reservation that we don’t know about. I also feel that the Native Americans are the cause of their own problems. They refuse to believe that they can also be the solution. They want to blame their problems on the so-called “white man.”

And this is why I refuse to watch the Disney version of this poor abused child!

I was born, and raised in Virginia; we all know who Pocahontas is. However, I was working for the one in red shorts when that movie came out… I was so embarrassed by what they presented as her story. The only good thing about that movie was the soundtrack, that was beautiful music. The rest was mostly lies.
That old TV show about crimes, where in the beginning the narrator comes on and says “The names have been changed to protect the innocent”. That movie, “the story has been changed to protect the guilty”.
SMH 🤦‍♀️ Some days it's really embarrassing to be white.
I do wish Wayne Newton would have been successful in getting Pocahontas's remains returned, so she could have a proper burial near her descendants, and people. I'm sure Virginia would have put a monument up for her, (other than the statue already in Jamestown).
🧓☮️🖖

This guy is very annoying